“I thought it wiser at the moment,” Lord Langford said, sitting down in one of the comfortable armchairs.
“What has happened? Please tell us what has happened,” Yolisa asked breathlessly.
Lord Langford drank a little more wine from his glass before he replied,
“It was very wise and exceedingly clever of you, Your Royal Highness, to escape as you did. I gather from Ajax that it was only a matter of a few minutes before you saw the Russians entering the Palace.”
“I knew that I was in danger,” the Prince said quietly, “and Yolisa was aware of it at the same time. If she had not come to me and I had been obliged to arouse her as I expected to do, it would have been too late.”
“That is what I understood,” Lord Langford said. “I can only thank God that what Yolisa calls her Third Eye sa
